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Zhoushan, Fodu Island, Shuangyu Port.

It is suspended in the ocean, only more than 60 miles away from Dinghai County. Divided into two mountains in the east and west, there are waterways in the north and south, and there are also small hills like a door barrier, and the middle is about 20 miles wide.

It is well sheltered from the wind, and through the waterway protected by the two mountains, after which there is a harbor.

It is said that Guanyin Dashi stayed on this island for a transition before finding the place of truth, Putuo Mountain, so it became Fodu Island.

The island is full of stones, and only wild grasses grow between the stones, and there is no arable land for planting, so it has been uninhabited.

However, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it was a maritime smuggling center, and the Portuguese and pirate Wang Zhi used it as a trading base to trade with Jiangnan.

In the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing (1548), Zhu Kun, the governor of Zhejiang in the Ming Dynasty, led 380 warships and 6,000 troops to attack Shuangyu Port, capturing the leaders of the maritime merchants, Li Guangtou, Xu Liu, Yao Da, etc., destroying the barracks built, and then the officers and soldiers filled Shuangyu Port with wood and stone. The Ming army defeated the Japanese and drove out the Portuguese, and the place was once again deserted.

When Yang Chao reopened trade, the Dutch chose it, and Yang Chao allowed them to build a warehouse here. The Dutch turned this place from a desert island into a prosperous port in a few years, invested more than 100,000 taels of silver, built a wharf, and built hundreds of large warehouses.

However, Yang Chao did not allow them to build a castle, and Shi Lang later established a naval base here.

The reason why Shuangyu Port is valued by Wang Zhi and the Portuguese is that its geographical location is extremely important, located at the mouth of Hangzhou Bay. To the south is Ningbo. To the north is Matsue. In later generations, it was an excellent trading port, which could radiate Jiangsu, Zhejiang and even Fujian and Guangzhou, and it was also a naval base in later generations.

After the outbreak of this war, Yang Chao immediately sent troops to arrest the Dutch on Shuangyu Port and confiscate the port wharf of the Dutch. The warehouse is customs.

At this time, many crosses were made on the wharf, and on each cross hung a corpse, all of them were blonde and blue-eyed foreigners, and many Zhejiang merchants who came here to do business pointed at them.

After the Dutch developed here, they attracted many merchants from the area of Hangzhou Bay, Hangzhou Bay is turbulent, the reef is dense, there is no good harbor, only small boats can be passed, and the goods in Hangzhou Bay in the past have to be shipped by sea. Either it was transported to Ningbo by small boat to go to sea, or it was sent to Songjiang.

These merchants drove small boats to deliver goods to Shuangyu Port. Thus trading with the Dutch.

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you think that the Metropolitan Governor will not ban the sea? It's only been open for a few years, and if the sea is forbidden again, the livelihood of the big guy will be gone. ”

Several businessmen looked at the harsh situation and couldn't help but say in distress.

"Who else can be blamed, don't they all blame these foreign hairs, they are insatiable!"

They are also not accustomed to seeing these foreigners dare to rob, and there are many Haining people among them.

"I heard that the Metropolitan Governor has exterminated the nest of foreign hairs, and these foreign hairs were killed in Taiwan, and they are hanging here to give future generations a warning, and I heard that the Metropolitan Governor will send troops to farther places to kill all the foreign hairs."

"So the Metropolitan Governor must ban the sea."

A merchant sighed and killed all the hair, but if the sea is not forbidden, who else can they do business with.

A few years ago, most of them were still fishermen, and they opened a sea trade through transportation one by one, which only then developed, and every family made a little money, but not much.

The most distressing thing is a man in his forties who has just let people build a big ship and intends to expand the scale, and his family is from Haining County.

"Kill, kill well. If it should be banned, it must be banned! How can I let the pirates plague our neighbors because of me and other merchants? ”

At this time, they suddenly saw several soldiers coming out of a large house, where was the office of the East India Company, and now the port yamen of Shuangyu Port.

Several soldiers took yellow paper and paste, and put up several notices on the wooden poles where the corpses were hung.

The businessmen surrounded them in an instant, and after seeing the news, a weighing stone in their hearts suddenly fell to the ground.

Yang Chao told these people that they would not ban the sea, and asked everyone to feel at ease and continue to do business. As long as you pay taxes according to the regulations, you are a good businessman and a pillar who contributes to the country.

"Long live the Grand Governor!"

Several businessmen cheered.

"Let's go, brothers, let the dogs catch dozens of catties of big fish, and come to my house to drink tonight."

The maritime merchant who had just bought a big ship shouted happily that his family was a local clan, with a population of several hundred, and lived in a village by the sea, but he was not a famous family, but an honest fisherman, and he would not be able to make a fortune without opening the sea trade. He built a big ship this time in order to pull the young and strong people in the village to the boat to make a living, but he didn't expect this to happen, in order to build a ship, he borrowed a lot of money.

A group of people did not refuse, shouting that they wanted to eat poor Lao Yu, laughing and scolding his family for not knowing how to set up a banquet when the big boat was launched, and this time it was made up.

What makes the maritime merchants happy is, of course, that Yang Chao did not ban the sea, that is to say, Yang Chao's threat to the Dutch to ban the sea was just a bluff, and it was announced at this time, naturally because he had negotiated with the Dutch.

In fact, the Dutch also had to accept Yang Chao's request, because Taiwan was easily occupied, and then Yang Chao really united with Zheng to send troops to Nanyang and occupied Malacca in an instant.

Malacca was originally in the hands of the Portuguese, and its status was equivalent to that of Singapore in later generations, but after the Dutch took it from the Portuguese, Malacca became desolate, because the Dutch did not intend to run here, the purpose of their occupation here was to monopolize the spice trade, to fight the Portuguese, and the Dutch were only interested in running Batavia.

This time Yang Chao easily occupied this place, I have to say that it has something to do with the fact that the Dutch do not pay attention to this place.

After the capture of Malacca, Yang and Zheng allied forces sharpened their knives and prepared to attack Batavia, but the Dutch immediately succumbed.

Yang Chao agreed to a series of conditions, and all Dutch property in Shuangyu Port was confiscated, but the warehouse was returned to the Dutch. Malacca was ceded to the Ming Dynasty. The island of Taiwan was also ceded to the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, they sent in the Dutch, including Captain Philip, who Yang Chao publicly beheaded in Haining. The Dutch also paid 30,000 taels of silver to the victimized villages. Let the families of the victims rebuild their homes.

Of course, Yang Chao also agreed to some requests from the Dutch. For example, the Dutch can freely enter and leave the island of Taiwan. You can continue to trade in Shuangyu Port and so on.

Taiwan Island has always been the second trading base of the Dutch, and the income is second only to the Japanese stronghold, but in recent years, the Dutch have been more successful in operating in Shuangyu Port, and the annual import and export of tens of millions of taels of goods still exceeds Taiwan's income, which is almost the same as Japan's trade income.

Keeping Shuangyu Port, the Dutch East India Company will retain its confidence, and let's talk about it. It is growing rapidly every year, and it is estimated that it will surpass Japan within three years, and the Dutch are reluctant to give up.

As for Taiwan, of course, it is also very important, but when there is no choice, it can only give up. Fortunately, Taiwan's main income is also obtained through trade, and the people above are frantically squeezed, and only half of the gains are obtained.

But about the shipyards in Taiwan, the Dutch clashed with Yang Chao several times. Ships are the largest export cargo of the Dutch to Taiwan, and indeed to the entire East. The loss of the Taiwanese shipyard will make the Dutch lose millions of silver in the future.

It's just that Yang Chao's attitude is very resolute, saying that the shipyard has been sold to Longjiang Shipyard and bought to Yao Jiangtou for 100,000 taels of silver, which still supports Yao Jiangtou's industry and supports the shipbuilding industry of the Ming Dynasty.

However, for the largest export product of the Dutch, Taiwan's horse farm, Yang Chao returned it to the Dutch, the war horse of the horse farm can bring more than three million taels of silver to the Dutch every year, and the shipyard is definitely not more than one million, Yang Chao would rather give up the three million horse farm than give up the shipyard with one million income, which is really puzzling to the Dutch.

But now that they're going back to the racecourse, they're no longer attached to the shipyard.

After the trade treaty was signed, trade quickly resumed.

For the future of Taiwan, Zheng has some ideas, they want to ask Yang Chao to pass Taiwan, Taiwan has been run by the Dutch in recent years, but the forced labor policy adopted by the Dutch has led to Taiwan's population always not going up, no one wants to immigrate there, and the Fujian people who have lived in Taiwan for a long time are trying to run back.

In the era of Zheng Zhilong, the Zheng family had the move to run Taiwan, and Zheng Zhilong, who was wealthy at that time, promised that three people would give one cow and one person would give three taels of silver, which attracted tens of thousands of people to go, but later they were all thrown to the Dutch.

These people were all attracted by the Zheng family, so in their hearts they wanted the Zheng family to rule them, but if Taiwan was handed over to the Zheng family, which had a strong maritime power, Yang Chao would have no way to control Zheng Chenggong.

The British could use pirates to conquer cities and expand their maritime interests, but if they could not be restrained and led them to rob the British merchant ships everywhere, the British would immediately strangle the pirates.

Yang Chao also didn't want to get to the point where he wanted to eliminate the Zheng clan one day.

However, the Zheng family was eager to have a piece of their own territory after losing Fujian, so after the war, Zheng Chenggong immediately ran to Nanjing to ask to see Yang Chao.

"It's a success. Taiwan is isolated overseas, facing Fujian across the sea. The Zheng family has arrived in Taiwan and has a heavy army, do you think the governor will be at ease? ”

Zheng Chenggong's face changed slightly, the Zheng family suffered heavy losses in attacking Shanhaiguan, and most of the Jiangyang thieves and outlaws recruited had lost most of them, and they had not recovered until now, so they were in a hurry to ask for a piece of land, but they didn't want to do it in Fujian, Fujian was already Yang Chao's, and they didn't dare to grab food from Yang Chao's mouth.

"The Metropolitan Governor misunderstood. The Zheng family has always been very respectful to the governor of the capital, and they are also loyal to the imperial court. ”

Zheng Chenggong still declared his loyalty to Emperor Longwu at this time, Zheng Chenggong was much stronger than Sun Kewang on this alone, and the people who could be on a par with Li Dingguo were not comparable to Sun Kewang in terms of political vision.

"Success, it's not that the governor doesn't worry about you. You know how I have been with the Zheng family over the years. In the end, the Zheng family is the sea power of the Ming Dynasty. I've never looked the other way, but you know for yourselves that it's still different from the Ming sailors. If this continues, sooner or later, either the Ming Dynasty will destroy you, or you will escape to the sea to become pirates. As long as the Ming Dynasty wants to master the naval army by itself, it will not be able to tolerate a Zheng family. You should understand that! ”

Zheng Chenggong's expression was cold: "The Metropolitan Governor is planning to cook the rabbit to death and the dog?" ”

Yang Chao couldn't help but shake his head, Zheng Chenggong is really a wolf, not a dog, if you don't say it, you will bite people, and it really has half Japanese blood.

"Definitely. The Governor didn't want to be an enemy of the Zheng family. Just a fact. No matter who will do it in the future, whether it is surnamed Zhu or others, it will not tolerate a lonely Zheng family hanging overseas. ”

Zheng Chenggong took a deep breath and said, "Please point out the way to the capital!" ”

The Zheng family is now the weakest time, if Yang Chao wants to do something to them, if they unite with the Dutch to fight them, they really can't resist it, besides, Zheng Chenggong is absolutely unwilling to confront the mainland regime, the Zheng family can develop, relying on the support of the imperial court, he just hopes to get Yang Chao's support, but he doesn't want to arouse Yang Chao's covetousness, but he has to endure it now.

Yang Chao said with a smile: "I don't know if Uncle Zhong Xiaobo wants to make meritorious deeds or be self-reliant?" (To be continued......)